Darren Rowse

WidgetBucks have announced that they will begin to serve CPM based ads to traffic that isn’t from the US or Canada (starting early in December). This comes in the wake of them previously stopping international traffic from seeing their ads – something that caused many publishers to stop using them. ...more

With December starting tomorrow I thought it might be worth pointing back to a series of posts that I wrote at this time last year on How to Optimize Your Blog for Christmas. Keep in mind that positioning yourself for seasonal traffic (and believe me that the next month there ...more

Are AdSense truly interested in cutting down mistaken clicks on ads? If so – why do some of the biggest sites on the web (including one of their own) still have most of their ad units clickable while the average publisher does not? I just had an email from WebbyThoughts ...more

Earlier in the month I asked readers to share their blog earnings for the month of October. As usual this poll was a popular one with 3054 responses. I’ve run this survey previously so will compare the results between this and last time I ran it below. Of this number ...more

Would you like your blog to be constructively critiqued by hundreds of ProBloggers (and aspiring ProBloggers)? Read on to find out how you could be the next recipient of a ProBlogger Community Consultation. Last month I ran a little experiment here on ProBlogger – ProBlogger Community Blog Consulting. The idea ...more

Roman from Phone Area emailed me after seeing my recent post on adding Amazon ‘buy now’ buttons to posts with a similar suggestion that extends the principle: “I’ve used this method for a couple months and took it a step further to get more impressions and revenue: I don’t link ...more

Self Made Minds had a short but brilliant post last week that I think is Gold for those using Amazon’s affiliate program to make money from their blog (in fact it can be adapted to any affiliate program). Al writes that he hacked together a little ‘Buy Now’ in the ...more

Do You Subscribe to Your Own RSS Feeds? Some might think that subscribing to yourself is nothing more than an exercise in vanity – but I believe it’s good blogging practice and something that can improve your blog. This morning I was wading through the thousands of unread items in ...more

This guest post was submitted by Elise Bauer, Publisher of Simply Recipes and Editor-in-Chief of Learning Movable Type Read blogs long enough and one thing will begin to stand out is the varying tenor and quality of comments on different blogs. When I first started publishing my own blogs and ...more